Tag Archives: Borland

Overview In this article I want to revisit 2 aspects of the Open Tools API that I’ve written about before in Chapter 15: IDE Main Menus and Chapter 17: Options Page(s) inside the IDE’s Options Dlg. I’ve been updating Browse and Doc It for a long awaited new release which updates the Object Pascal parser… Read More »

Overview So in my last post I said there were a few things to fixed and / or enhance. In this post I’ll explain how I fixed two issues. The two issues I’ve fixed are stoppping the timer which closes the Message View if a re-compilation occurs (very simple and I should have done this… Read More »

I’ve just update the Open Tools API Interface Search application to provide the ability to target searches based on a secondary search criteria. You can get more information on the application along with the executable and source code here. I’ve also started to load my Open Tools API related projects on to GitHub (https://github.com/DGH2112/). I’ll… Read More »

I’ve just published a new page with an application to help people search to Open Tools API interfaces, method and properties and to provide some help in writing code to get to those interfaces, method or properties by providing a treeview of possible paths to the intended item. You can get more information on the… Read More »

Overview A week or so ago Alex Bassi was asking on the CPP Slack channel how to do Open Tools API stuff in C++ Builder. I had started looking into this a while ago but found a few hicups along the way and put it all on the back burner until I had more time.… Read More »

This is just a quick post to let you know there is now C++ Open Tools API example code available from the below page. C++ OTA Template I’ll be blogging on how it all works shortly but I’ll be out cycling tomorrow 🙂 Related posts: The Open Tools API using C++ Builder Notify me of… Read More »

Overview I was going to blog about Unit Testing non-public members of classes using inheritance, class helpers and test interfaces but the more I refactored my piece of legacy code into smaller classes and interfaces the less valid my methods seemed to become. I may still write something about this but for now here's something… Read More »

I think the title says it all. The Delphi Open Tools API Book – Version 1.1 The update includes all the articles written since its first publication so you can have all the information in a single volume. regards Dave. Related posts: The Delphi Open Tools API Book Compiling and Installing my experts and wizards…… Read More »

I’ve written an Expert Manager for multiple IDEs and decided to publish it rather than keep it as an internal project as it might be useful to those who manage multiple IDEs when developing OTA solution. I needed a tool that could edit multiple IDE installations and debugging points all at the same time and… Read More »

I’ve created an index for the Open Tools API interfaces which can be found on this page. This is my first pass (or parse) at this so it may be missing a few. The index is sorted alphabetically and references the first version of Delphi / RAD Studio the interface appeared in (note: I don’t… Read More »